Tag: Christmas

“The love that Jesus seems to represent, at least in the Bible, is love of people that forces you to reject any system that organizes, orders, and backs with military force a force that oppresses those people,” says Rev. David Bullock in a special Christmas episode of The Real News Network’s “Reality Asserts Itself.”

The National Security Agency took advantage of the holiday lull in press coverage and released 12 years of internal oversight reports documenting abusive and improper practices by agency employees, The Intercept reports.

One hundred years ago today, German and Allied soldiers “defied their superiors to declare a truce … providing a glimpse of the power that people without rank or privilege have to determine their own destinies.”

Whoever is actually behind the devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment knows how to play to the public’s imagination on the same super-sized scale as their targets in the film industry do for a living.

“Capitalism is the reason for the season,” says a new, rebranded Christ, imagined by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore just in time to save Christmas from people who think sharing is an American value.

“The Daily Show’s” segment on Fox News’ Christmas paranoia doesn’t get better than this clip where Jon Stewart takes down both Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly for their absurd statements about nativity scenes and Santa. Whether or not you’re celebrating the holiday, take some time to make it jollier with some Stewart inspired laughter.